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Wittenberg
Wittenberg (Lutherstadt Wittenberg), a town of about 46,800 on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; seat of Landkreis Wittenberg. Site of Luther's 1517 95 Theses; four Reformation buildings are UNESCO World Heritage (1996).
Wittenberg university herbarium
Wittenberg university herbarium: the historical herbarium and botanical garden of the Saxon University of Wittenberg (1660–1817, transferred to Halle, nucleus of HAL), and the Jacobs Herbarium (JHWU) at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, with orchid specimens from 1884 used to culture mycorrhizal fungi.
Wittenoom, Western Australia
Wittenoom, Western Australia: former Pilbara asbestos mining town, Australia's only blue asbestos source 1950-1966; mine closed 1966, town degazetted 2007, permanently closed by 2022 legislation as a contaminated site.
Wittenstein (company)
Wittenstein, officially WITTENSTEIN SE, is a German family-owned company headquartered in Igersheim, Baden-Württemberg. Founded in 1949 as a maker of glove sewing machines, it turned to precision servo gearboxes, servo motors, and actuators in 1983.
Witteveen-Kolk syndrome
Witteveen-Kolk syndrome (WITKOS, SIN3A-related intellectual disability syndrome, OMIM 613406) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from SIN3A loss-of-function variants or 15q24 microdeletions, causing mild intellectual disability, distinctive facies, hypotonia, and epilepsy.
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein (1993) is Derek Jarman's experimental biopic of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, scripted by Terry Eagleton, staged on a black set with Sandy Powell costumes, starring Karl Johnson and Tilda Swinton, and winner of the Berlin Teddy Award.
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is Saul Kripke's 1982 reading of Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox and private language argument, proposing a skeptical challenge to meaning and a Humean skeptical solution.
Wittig reaction
The Wittig reaction, or Wittig olefination, is an organic reaction that converts an aldehyde or ketone into an alkene using a phosphonium ylide, discovered by Georg Wittig in 1954.
Wittlich
Wittlich (villa witelira) is a town in Bernkastel-Wittlich district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Lieser. It is distinguished by a 140 m Roman villa built 150-200 AD, destroyed around 350, and by its 1300 town charter from the Trier archbishops.
Wittmann (company)
Wittmann is an Austrian company headquartered in Vienna that makes injection molding machines, robots, and auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry; it was founded by Dr. Werner Wittmann in 1976.
Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand is a gold-bearing ridge and sedimentary basin in Gauteng, South Africa, the world's largest gold province and source of nearly 40 percent of all gold ever mined.
Witwatersrand Gold Rush
The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was the 1886 influx of prospectors to the Transvaal after George Harrison discovered the Main Reef, leading to the founding of Johannesburg.
Witwatersrand Native Labour Association
Wenela, or WNLA, was the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association, set up by the Chamber of Mines in the early 1900s to recruit migrant laborers, chiefly from Mozambique, for South Africa's mines.
Witzelsucht
Witzelsucht, from German Witz (joke) and Sucht (addiction), is a rare neurological syndrome of compulsive punning and inappropriate joking after right frontal lobe damage; coined by Hermann Oppenheim in 1890, distinct from Jastrowitz's moria.
Wiveliscombe Auxiliary Fort
Wiveliscombe Auxiliary Fort: small Roman fort at Nunnington Park, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England; mid 1st-century (Julio-Claudian) earthwork, excavated by G. Webster in 1956, scheduled monument, magnetometer-surveyed in 2023.
Wives aboard Noah's Ark
The wives aboard Noah's Ark, also called the wives aboard the Ark, are the four unnamed women of Genesis 6–9 whom Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions later named.
Wives and Daughters
Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story is Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel, serialized in the Cornhill Magazine 1864–1866 and unfinished at her death in November 1865. It follows Molly Gibson, a doctor's daughter in a pre-Reform Bill provincial town, and is often considered Gaskell's masterpiece.
Wives of Duryodhana
Wives of Duryodhana: unnamed consorts of the Kaurava prince in the Sanskrit Mahabharata, later given the name Bhanumati (Banowati in Javanese tradition), with competing accounts making her a Kalinga, Kamboja, Kashi, or Madra princess.
Wives of Henry VIII
The wives of Henry VIII were six queens consort of England married between 1509 and his death, of whom three marriages were annulled and two wives beheaded.
Wives of Muhammad
Wives of Muhammad (azwāj al-nabī), the Mothers of the Believers (ummahāt al-muʾminīn): the eleven to thirteen women married to the Prophet, including Khadija, ʿĀʾisha, and Umm Salama, their hadith transmission, political roles, and modern representation.
Wives of Ranjit Singh
Wives of Ranjit Singh: the 18 to 46 women, depending on source, married by the Sikh Empire's founder between 1786 and 1835, including Mehtab Kaur, Datar Kaur, Moran Sarkar, and Jind Kaur.
Wiwynn
Wiwynn (纬颖) is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer of hyperscale cloud servers, founded in 2012 as a Wistron spin-off and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2019.
Wix
Wix is an Israeli software company whose cloud platform lets users build websites through free and paid subscriptions. It was founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq in 2013.
Wix.com
Wix.com is an Israeli software company operating a freemium website-building platform founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan. It trades on Nasdaq.
Wiyâshâkimî
Wiyâshâkimî (Lac Wiyâshâkimî, formerly Lac à l'Eau Claire, Clearwater Lakes) is a double impact-crater lake in Tursujuq National Park, northern Québec, formed by two impacts about 180 million years apart, with a 1,243 km² oligotrophic freshwater surface.
Wiz
Wiz is a cloud security company founded in Tel Aviv in 2020 and headquartered in New York, whose agentless platform scans cloud environments for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa (Cameron Jibril Thomaz, b. 1987), Pittsburgh rapper behind "Black and Yellow" and "See You Again," Rostrum/Atlantic artist, founder of Taylor Gang Entertainment and Khalifa Kush.
Wiz Khalifa discography
Wiz Khalifa discography: seven studio albums, 21 mixtapes, 84 singles by the Pittsburgh rapper; spans Show and Prove (2006) through Rolling Papers, "See You Again," and Khaotic (2026).
Wizadora
Wizadora is a British live-action children's series about a trainee wizard, created by Don Arioli and Carolyne Cullum; first an Oxford University Press English-teaching series on SWR in 1991, then a Meridian-produced ITV/CITV show from 1993 starring Wendy van der Plank.
Wizard
Wizard is a magic-user whose power comes from study and learning. In fantasy, they are defined as students of arcane magic, contrasting with sorcerers who use innate power.